Creation Revolution

Category: Medicine

• Psychiatry Is Not (Yet) a Science

  By David Coppedge Complaints about a new diagnostic manual show that psychiatry has a long way to go before being considered a legitimate science.  That hope might never be fulfilled. The occasion for scientific scrutiny on psychiatry is the publication … Continue reading →

  

• Abortion: The Evolution Connection

  by Jake Hebert, Ph.D., and Michael Stamp Within a consistent evolutionary worldview, there is no logical basis for moral absolutes. If mankind is truly a cosmic accident, then there is no Creator-God to whom we must give an account, and there is … Continue reading →

  

• Appendix shrieks ‘Creation’ (at least 18 times!)

  In the context of the creation/evolution controversy, what does the word ‘appendix’ mean to you? Perhaps you remember having been taught the idea, first mooted by Charles Darwin, that the appendix is evidence of our evolutionary past, a ‘vestigial organ’ … Continue reading →

  

• North Dakota First State to Pass Personhood Amendment

  Many people believe that the pro-life movement is just about abortion, but there is so much more to it than that.  If you believe that human life begins at conception, then there are other issues that you need to consider.  … Continue reading →

  

• Countering revisionism—part 1: Ernst Haeckel, fraud is proven

  by E. van Niekerk For more than a century, one of the foremost bastions of Darwinian evolution has been that embryos of different animals pass through a similar stage in which they resemble one another very closely. Although embryologists had long … Continue reading →

  

• Mosquitoes and the Fall

  by Frank Sherwin, M.A. Christians often question what we call the “predator-prey problem”—animals that appear to be designed to prey upon others. For example, bats find and consume prey using sophisticated biological sonar equipment, and parasites devastate host bodies using … Continue reading →

  

• Are Evolutionists Remorseful Over Nazi Experimentation?

  The pro-evolution BBC is squeamish over German anatomy illustrations from cadavers of executed prisoners.  Why? According to the BBC News, German scientists in the 1940s received cadavers from prisoners and nonchalantly used them for science: “The University of Vienna had a special streetcar hearse that delivered the … Continue reading →

  

• What Made Us Human?

  Guess what! Evolutionary scientists claim they have finally found the impetus behind why humans evolved from lower mammals. Charles Choi, a LiveScience writer, penned an article titled: “Eating Meat Made Us Human Suggests New Skull Fossil” (2012). He wrote that “[f]ragments of … Continue reading →

  

• Adult Stem Cell Breakthroughs Continue

  Adult stem cells continue to show promise as more about these pluripotent cells comes to light. Heart repair:  Medical Xpress reported that organ-derived stem cell injections appear to have promise for tissue repair from myocardial infarction.  The cells come from skeletal muscle … Continue reading →

  

• Proteins Conduct Electricity

  By David Coppedge A remarkable finding at the single-molecule level shows a protein can conduct a large amount of electricity. A press release from the University of Cardiff describes how researchers isolated a single protein molecule and measured the passage of a … Continue reading →

  

• Jellyfish for Your Health

  Jellyfish have inspired a cancer cell search tool – just one of new products and services inspired by nature. Tentacle probe:  “Inspired by marine creatures that present long tentacles containing multiple adhesive domains to effectively capture flowing food particulates,” medical researchers … Continue reading →

  

• Jellyfish Judgment

  At schools and universities, students are taught that jellyfish are ‘primitive’ creatures way down the evolutionary ‘tree’. Unlike ‘more advanced’ marine creatures such as fish, jellyfish do not appear to be powerful swimmers. Lacking a backbone, their pumping action is … Continue reading →

  

• The Briefing, October 25, 2012

  TODAY: Also on the ballot in November, the legalization of marijuana (Oregon, Washington, Colorado) and the expansion of gambling (Maryland). The precedent is set for a radical expansion of presidential power after the election. The new face of infidelity — … Continue reading →

  

• Why Exercise Builds Muscle

  You have stem cells alongside your muscles that provide a ready pool of new muscle cells. In special “niches” alongside muscle cells, muscle progenitor stem cells are at the ready.  When called upon, they can differentiate into new muscle cells.  … Continue reading →

  

• Slaughter of the British Innocents

  By Paul Taylor In a week where the British public has been rightly proud of what they have achieved, both in hosting a wonderful Olympic Games and in achieving more medals than ever before, came a much less-publicized piece of … Continue reading →

  

• Epigenetics Leads the Genetics News

  More and more studies are revealing systems that regulate DNA.  Here are some recent samples. Stress response:  PhysOrg headlined, “Study finds stress triggers widespread epigenetic changes that aid in disease resistance reported.”  A study by the Salk Institute made it clear that epigenetics involves a … Continue reading →

  

• Mind Your Brain

  By David Coppage Recent discoveries about the brain and the mind reveal the wonders inside our skulls and pose deep philosophical questions. Switchboard operator:  How does your brain keep track of the constant stream of input coming in from the … Continue reading →

  

• It’s (Virtually) Alive!

  by Brian Thomas, M.S. Scientists made a virtual microbe, complete with dozens of interconnected cell functions. But it wasn’t easy. Their creation could be used in two important areas of research. The Stanford-led team of bioengineers watched 128 of their … Continue reading →

  

• Why Do We Develop Useless Tissue During Embryonic Development

  By R. L. David Jolly At one time, evolutionists had a list of over 100 vestigial organs, tissues and structures in the human body.  Vestigial means that they are left over from our evolutionary heritage but no longer have any … Continue reading →

  

• Scientific Ethics Concerns Rising

  For an enterprise as secular and materialistic as science, there’s a lot of talk about morality these days. Human subjects:  This past week, Science magazine reported on a government panel that is revising the 1991 regulations on human research.  Rebecca Dresser reported, “Although … Continue reading →